Because both parents are now expected/required to do this. Though I understand you were asking a rhetorical question.

Commendable effort, but there’s been great advances in trolling over the past decade and I implore you to study the literature.

I barely do anything but work, recover from work, and get ready for work.

Hogfather as in the Discworld novel? I could have sworn that was older than Harry Potter.

Edit: it is, but surprisingly only one year older than the first Harry Potter book.

i have a sex

I guess she’s a Japanese schoolgirl.

I just did a poo.

Well, you’ve clearly made your mind up.

I’m not sure about the ownership of foundations, charitable funds and the like; some degree of corruption wouldn’t surprise me unfortunately.

I will say that she won’t have been deliberately pushing class-stratification given her socioeconomic background, however the whole setting is heavily influenced by Victorian-era children’s novels about boarding school adventures which were absolutely saturated with classism.

They surely needed a team of editors towards the end.

JK Rowling holds a very common position amongst older feminists and really doesn’t deserve the constant rape threats for funding women’s refuges. I’m pushing back on the party line here, and no, I don’t believe trans people deserve to be killed, or any bullshit like that. I promise to hide them in my non-existent attic if it comes to that.

Edit: the books did get progressively worse after the third or possibly fourth one, though, and the films aren’t very good.

I found “The Better Angels of Our Nature” interesting and well-researched, it changed my opinion on this.

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go right ree

I just tried Google Gemini and it would not stop making shit up, it was really disappointing.

Don’t chew your food with your mouth open, holy shit Michael where are your manners

Only 1k, I see.

so bored of this joke now

The word choice is certainly not accidental.

oh dear

We’re going spring washer, jam nut, Nylock nut and threadlocker. I’m rebuying the threadlocker.